“I think it’s common to meet somebody and fall in love right away, but the rest isn’t easy. When you’re in love, sometimes you just can’t see it realistically. The world inside a relationship can be very warped because of feelings and memories, and it all becomes jumbled,” Seyfried says.

Amanda Seyfried was reportedly struggling with her own love life while promoting the very romantic Letters to Juliet in Verona, Italy. No one was confirming the rumors that she broke down in tears at a press reception because of a rift with her boyfriend, British actor Dominic Cooper, whom she met on the set of Mamma Mia. But Seyfried isn’t denying that their trans-Atlantic relationship has been a challenge.

Amanda says, “It’s never easy to be separated from someone you love. Channing Tatum [her co-star on Dear John] told me he’s never away from his wife for more than two weeks. But when your love lives in another country, it’s a lot of miles on airplanes, a lot of distance in space and in time. It helps to Skype twice a day. Still, it does get awkward when you get back together. I always find it hard, even after you’re separated even for just a few days.”

And then there’s working non-stop on movie sets. “In Letters to Juliet, my character was very motivated by her job and not by her love life, which is kind of normal for a girl her age. I know it is for me. Sometimes I focus less on my relationship and more on my career.”

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf also found out that, while Seyfried got a kick out of playing the woman who reunites two long-lost lovers (played by screen legends Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero), she likes her romances a little darker.

Pass the tissues. “Basically, I like to have a good cry. My favorite type of movie romance is an intense, sad, kind of gloomy story. Titantic was a huge influence on me. Leonardo DiCaprio was the ultimate actor and Kate Winslet became that princess and that was the foundation of everything that I’ve learned about love, with maybe a little help from Baz Lurhmann’s Romeo and Juliet.”

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